Does Privilege Matter?

[dtq123]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qavNOONOuRw
Feel free to critique the video.

[Baruch]

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2015/07/22/review-naomi-zack-white-privilege-and-black-rights-injustice-us-police-racial

It is very hard for people mired in a mud wrestling context to speak meaningfully about cleanliness.

The idea of White privilege is in a particular political context.  Without that context, it can't exist.  In that context, we are talking about propaganda and policy rather than some Enlightenment meme that didn't even apply to most people in America at the start, or since then.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

No.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

The video is full of shit to assume that inmates in prison are as free as say...Prince George to determine their own lives and destiny. Sure George has extreme privilege, but it comes at a steep price. An inmate locked up in a prison in Guatemala hardly has the same chance of even living another day much less determine his destiny.

[Baruch]

Every human being is trapped in a cage of nature's making, society's making, and their own making.  Some cages are better than others, but a cage is a cage.  I have never wanted great wealth, power or fame just for this reason (not that there is any danger in that).  I don't think a gilded cage would be much fun, on the contrary it would be a kind of irony.

[Sal1981]

Privilege is only about pointing out facticity

[Green Bottle]

Privilege is only important to people who think they are privileged.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Privilege is only important to people who think they are privileged.

Or jealous/angry/envious of those whom they think have MORE privilege.

[Baruch]

Sal1981 ... which one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facticity

The opposite is "falsity" ... which I think more accurately characterizes things.  Either "legend in your own mind" or "legend in someone else's mind".

[Sal1981]

Sal1981 ... which one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facticity

The opposite is "falsity" ... which I think more accurately characterizes things.  Either "legend in your own mind" or "legend in someone else's mind".

Foremost the cards one is dealt in life. Secondly, the provisional control one has on their environment.

[drunkenshoe]

Privilege is only important to people who think they are privileged.

Said the white man living in the UK.

[Draconic Aiur]

im white have no privilege here in south texas

[Baruch]

Draconic Aiur ... you can always fix that by marrying a Mexican (aka someone of Native American ancestry from MesoAmerica) ;-)

[Mermaid]

Privilege is only important to people who think they are privileged.

Well, I....


what?

[Mermaid]

im white have no privilege here in south texas

People quite often fail to see their privilege. That's kind of the point.